... a door, and capable of containing in all about 400 persons. The total number may be about 7000. Babies, as numerous as black-berries, lay about amongst the straw which littered the floor ; and we noticed one young rascal, rising three years old, standing ...

... for tea harvest bands, did a two weeks' washing and the milking, made a colico dress, practised her music lee. son, went blackberrying, gathered a gallon, walked to town in the evening to attend a concert, and walked home again before bedtime. AN OLDEN ...

... clamorous jiaglemen and half-starved ters, and adventurers every description who devoutly believed that gold and fame grew like blackberries upon hedges everywhere but in poor Ireland, and who, if they did not suppose that the houses in Lon- don were tiled wi ...

... jinglemen and half-starved porters. and 'disallow ers of every description who devoutly believed that gold and fame grew like blackberries upon hed gs everywhere but in poor Ireland, and who, if they did not actually suppose that the houses in London were tiled ...

... military phenomenon who shot Prussians like sparrows, and to whom the helmets of hie dead enemies were as plentiful as blackberries—abould now tuns out to have bees nothing bet a Prussian spy. must go far towards exhausting the fund of Periaan credulity ...

... of our beset.. Wass a little uesgo boy wanted to attend his father's funeral, he the schoolmaster for a holiday to ge blackberrying. WHIR a man dies, people se:sessile inquires. What property has he left behin t bin' The angels will ask : What good deeds ...

... increase the liscomfiture of the planters, most of them are short of hands, many of the people having gone off to sather blackberries. The alarming condition of the cotton crop has caused the corn to be neglected. A similar state of things is represented ...

... boy pulls forth • monse's meat: ♦nd then the tempting bramblemoths invite the balms again, Their pretty mouths with blackberries so sweet and ripe to stain ; And many a brown not slips its sheath to share, poor little thing. A bunting pocket with a ...

... ridiculous to call them black- Two gentlemen passing a blackberry bush when the fruit berries when they were red. * Don't you know,’ said his green — The World of Wit and Humour. friend, ‘that blackberries are always red when they are A witty clergyman, accosted ...

... else how comes it that these ninety thousand children go to no school, although schools are as plentiful in the land as blackberries? The compulsory clause is one of the good points in the Lord Advocate’s Bill, and with all deference to those who protest ...

... understand this. ‘When the mother to the prefix perfurts the have had an effect were walking along the read in quest of blackberries. Sud- came eaying—‘ Geet that my twoems may git, the ons of marriage. Of of the remainder belung to the are Wes aus, apd ...

... anything approaching menial ecnploymeiit; what they seek is hymeneal. AM Irishman was once asked he had ever seen a red- Blackberry. *To be sore I have/ said Pat * all block- Berriea are red when they are green A good-hearted but partially deaf old lady ...